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TLDDEFINITION: .Tel is a top-level domain (TLD) that makes it possible to register telephone numbers as domain names on theInternet and to associate those domain names with multiple Internet-based communication services. The .tel TLD was originally proposed in 1998 by Telnic, a corporation based in the United Kingdom. Their application to the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for .Tel was
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TOP LEVEL DOMAINS DEFINITION (continued): approved in 2006. According to Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic, "The .tel domain offers the first genuinely different use of domains since .com was first created. It will provide seamless integration of existing methods of communication with emerging technologies like VoIP (Voice over IP). This places the .tel domain at the core of the next phase of Internet development.".Tel applies to text messaging, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), videoconference activities and all other Internet-based communications. For example, an Internet user wishing to contact a registered user named Jane Doe can Top Level Domains definition sponsored by SearchUnifiedCommunications.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary

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